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Ok so I looked at the name dwn.com and guess what, after a long time admin email changed just 2 1/2 months prior to the sale…hhhmmm

I just don’t have the energy to confirm it wasn’t stolen so maybe someone else does. It may very well not have been but when a domain sales for 20x less than it’s worth and admin email changed out just before that, Id make a phone call. jmo

Now the womans name who sold it (admin contact) does appear prior to this, so it isn’t a new name in terms of ownership so maybe she changed whois email to complete the sale instead of activating the old email again.

Maybe I am wrong and the sale of the year just took place for a buyer.

Hi Ray, I see her name appear much earlier on so my mind is now at ease, looks like she just changed email in order to complete the sale, beats reactivating the old dwn.com email. WOWSER, this is exhibit #1, do NOT set BIN prices.

I dunno Ray my stomach on this is so-so, do we know if the new company sold it, the old company sold it or Diana? I see she was a “admin manager” with a quick google search. Perhaps she also owned the old company and just flat out gave this name away because she didn’t know. I’d just feel better knowing it wasn’t a shocking sale for bad reasons.

SEDO should at least verify if the seller is legit: has he joined in recently? does his IP match the whois information?

it could happen that the administrative email (sales@dwn.com) had been not working for all this time and didn’t receive the huge spam of the last years alerting for the value of the domain and the buyer found the administrator and reach a deal, but i see this really with a very low probability. Not very realistic to think a chinese buyer would find the owner and then suggest doing the sale through SEDO.

could also e an extremely coincidence also if the administrator/owner recently updated the whois contact information coming back online and then decided to list the domain for sale on SEDO using their price suggestion tool.

my experience and cynicism tells me that this has all the ingredients of a domain hijack and fast sale.